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Rable and extend an arms embargo due
to expire in October from Peo told
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a virtual meeting of the council that
renewing the embargo will exert more pressure
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on Tehran to start behaving
like what he called
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a normal nation the meeting is held twice
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a year to review implementation of the
resolution endorsing the 2015 Iran nuclear
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deal President Donald Trump withdrew from
the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and
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reimposed all u.s.
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Sanctions that had been lifted or waived
under the agreement in response Iran
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stopped carrying out its nuclear commitments
in January Tehran said it would no
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longer it here to limits on the numbers of
its uranium enriched centrifuges. Senior
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u.s. Lawmakers walked out of
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a White House briefing early Tuesday
saying they're not satisfied with what the
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trumpet ministration had to say about
allegations that Russia offered bounties to
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Taliban fighters to kill American and
coalition troops in Afghanistan President
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Trump and various White House officials
have maintained that the president was
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never briefed on intelligence regarding the
reported reported plot but some senior
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officials say the evidence
was shared across the u.s.
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Intelligence community and with allies whose
troops are potentially at risk meaning
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media reports by the New York Times c.n.n.
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And others also indicated that some of
the information was included in the
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Presidential Daily Brief
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a daily summary of top intelligence issues
in late February House Armed Services
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Committee chairman Adam Smith
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a Democrat told reporters the White House
did not have very clear answers. From
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Washington d.c.
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Or listening to be news. Belgium's King
Phillipe expressed regret Tuesday for
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75 years of his country's exploitative rule
in the Democratic Republic of Congo the
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King spoke on the African countries 60th
anniversary of independence he said in
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a letter to Congress President I want to
express my deepest regret for these past
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injuries the pain of which is regularly
revived by the discrimination that is still
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all too present in our society's statement
is the closest reigning Belgian monarch
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has ever come to an apology the Congo
gained independence from Belgium in 1960
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millions of Congolese died under Belgian
rule which exploited land and people for
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rubber copper diamonds gold and other
natural resources. Britain says it will not
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turn its back on the commitments it has
made to former colony Hong Kong Foreign
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Minister Dominic Robb made the pledge on
Tuesday he said China has broken promises
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with its new security law for the territory
under the new law which was passed and
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signed on Tuesday crimes of secession and
sedition will be punishable with up to
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life in prison earlier Rob said Britain
wanted to see details of the new law before
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deciding on an action the u.s.
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Commerce Department said Tuesday it will
allow exports of some goods to Hong Kong
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through the end of August under existing
license exceptions after it announced it
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was suspending those exceptions on Monday
the department said it as it was taking
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the action because of China's new security
measures the Commerce Department said
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licenses will need to be
obtained going forward and u.s.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for
sanctions and other steps against China
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billows he said the brutal law and her
words would frighten and suppress those
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peacefully seeking freedom and Iranian
journalist whose online work helped inspire
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nationwide economic protests and 2017 has
been sentenced to death for his actions
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a judiciary spokesman announced
Ruhollah sentence on Tuesday website
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a mod news and
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a channel he created on the popular messaging
app telegram had informed people on
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the timing of the protests and published
embarrassing information about Iranian
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officials the 27000 protests represented
the biggest challenge to Iran since
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post-election mass unrest in 2009 and
they set the stage for similar revolts in
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November 29th teen the
judiciary spokesman said
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a revolutionary court had convicted of
corruption charges often leveled in cases
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involving espionage or attempts to overthrow
Iran's government can appeal his case
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to the Supreme Court of a remote I'm
arisen Melton from Washington d.c.
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You're listening to v.o.a.
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News.
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Issue is to prove it's to prove
that one country 2 systems.
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Thousands in hung Congress show their
disagreement with their government leader
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this is Wednesday June 10th
and this is be a way a.j.
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I might remember and in Washington also
ahead as George Will it is buried protests
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continue with the u.s.
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Over his death we'll hear from an
author who has written about the racial
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discrimination in the United States throughout
the years Australian officials claim
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massive security hacks among the people
of that country it is all on today's be
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away. Riot police officers charged that
thousands of protesters who defied
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a police ban to mark the 1st anniversary
of the city's anti-government movement
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Tuesday night people began gathering at
the downtown shattered garden in the
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business district of central in the late
afternoon some held up banners saying hung
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Kang independence and shouting slogans
dozens of riot police the said did on them
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and conducted body searches on many they
offered grounds to leave saying they were
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taking part in an unapproved gathering and
would arrest that if they did not abide
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a man who swore at police officers was
swiftly detained while Crown's chanted
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anti-police slogans later protestors
spilled on to streets and merge with
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a crowd that was leaving work in the
financial district people formed
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a line and started marching as they chanted
slogans held up torch lights on their
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mobile phones and waved banners mostly
emblazoned with messages to make the
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independence from China many also put up
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a bill that is in case police fired tear
gas supporters of the movement say their
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feelings on the Emperor's free range from
hope to fear more from Reuters and or
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McCarthy. This high school student says his
dream is for the Chinese Communist. To
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let go and give back and free Hong Kong
from the protests succeeded in forcing it
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back down by the Hong Kong government
on proposed legislation that would have
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allowed extradition to mainland China but
had you later authorities in Beijing
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a draft in national security the list
that activists fear would fear the kook
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freedoms we see that golfing dummy said
you. Know what to say to the class that I
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will fight if I behave I don't like
to assemble. So you get the feeling
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that the. Demonstrations over the past
year often turned violent with police
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responding with tear gas and rubber bullets
the protests have strong support among
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Hong Kong 7500000 people according to
opinion polls but about one 3rd of the
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population opposed and protest is giving
up hard copy was showing the group I
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think like I was never like you I was
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thinking what was the right state
and I was the international force
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and I still was. Right was. The
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right way to was that was Reuters and
were McCarthy report city Peter Carey
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Lemon unpopular probe aging appointee
who was peppered with questions from
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reporters Tuesday about the unrest on her
tenure Hong Kong cannot afford such chaos
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she said adding all sides needed to learn
lessons binmen their issue is to proof as
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to proof that one country 2 systems work
works well in Hong Kong and to prove that
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Hong Kong people are reasonable and sensible
citizens of the People's Republic of
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China that we could be trusted. To
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a continue to have our own way off life and
our own way off system within the whole
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country some of the protesters on the streets
of Hong Kong held placards reading we
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can't breathe free h.k.
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And young ladies matter not to us protest
against police brutality sparked by the
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death of African American George flowrate
more on that coming up. These are
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among the top Asia headlines
you'll find right now at v.o.a.
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News dot com a study by a u.s.
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Researchers suggest the novel coronavirus
that was 1st detected in central China
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may have begun spreading well before the
outbreak was 1st revealed to the world
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a South Korean court rejected an arrest
warrant for the error at the legendary
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Samsung groups think alarm or it New
Zealanders gather at restaurants and cafes to
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celebrate the official end of their
long coronavirus foreign team period
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a Reuters report says the
little known Indian i.t.
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Permanent credit tanking services to help
clients spy on more than 10000 e-mail
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accounts over
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a period of 7 years expanded coverage of
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could be a way Asia and don't live below
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a News dot com website. Below
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Asia continues in the states of Texas and
North Carolina hundreds gathered to say
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their final goodbyes to George Floyd the
man who died after being in police custody
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in the state of Minnesota
while in Washington d.c.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced
sweeping legislation to combat police
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violence and racial injustice be
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a way corresponded Mariama the yellow has
more we are here to honor your wife's
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family House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
let House and Senate Democrats in
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a moment of sad. And sad the Capitol's
emancipation hall they took
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a need for nearly 9 minutes to symbolize
the length of time prosecutors say George
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Freud him cuffed and
face down was pinned and
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a white police officers leave before
he was later pronounced dead at
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a Minnesota hospital. Floyd's
death squads the world wide
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protest against police brutality and
with children justice over the weekend
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thousands more continue to protest.
Florida's death also prompted the National
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Football League commissioner Roger Goodell
to say that the league was wrong for not
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listening earlier to players fighting for
racial equality we have the National
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Football League believe lives
matter I personally protest with
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you and want to be part of
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a much needed change in this country
without black players there would be no
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national. And the protests around the
country are emblematic of the centuries of
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silence inequality in
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a professional black players coaches. And
staff Meanwhile in Minneapolis Floyd's
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girlfriend and others gathered at
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a park on Saturday to remember
fluid and release balloons took on
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a lives lost at the hands of law
enforcement Floyd is here went back.
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And. I've been wanting for
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a long time and whatever religion you are
away however you pray and want to thank
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me with the people that love him and
support us and his bank but God Thank you
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Father guy for giving us following through
it was also remembered in his North
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Carolina home town by
mourners who waited hours for
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a glimpse of his golden
calf send. Them. My.
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Dad. And in Houston Texas the final of
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a series of memory I was in floods honor
the public was able to view his casket at
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the fountain of Praise Church. My
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b.m.i. Down to the away
news. Happening then with
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a good Malaysia will last Bangladesh to
take back about 300 real Hindu refugees
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detainees Depor
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a boat carrying them either to its waters
this week according to the Southeast
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Asian nations defense minister of Malaysia
does not recognize refugee status but it
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has been
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a favorite destination for revenue growth
in just stay up to date with the way
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you're listening to deal
with the Asia. We're
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happy you're with us and be aware that Asia
not since the Civil Rights Movement of
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the 1950 s.
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And 6. These as the United States with
the such and. Many of those protesting
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say the death of George the breaking of
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a long list of African American deaths at
the hands of these as well as 400 years
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of racial. Spoke with Karen great
journalist and author of the book.
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My book Start with the case of white
police brutality there was Manning he was
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Brooks who was
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a friend of my father's and like my dad
was also on War 2 veteran and he tried to
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get a ride on
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a bus downtown one back in 1950 police
officer was called he had been acting flunk
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and disorderly However when the
police officer arrived he took out
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a gun and shot and killed
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a person and how it differs from how people
are responding now my father and that
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commander at the school where they were
teaching veterans like Catholic black
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Catholic school and decided to write
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a letter to you Michel to the mayor and
to the police chief and say we want that
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police officer prosecuted to the extent
of the law well that didn't happen the
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white police review board found that it
was a justifiable shooting at them like
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a. Gentleman they organize a massive
March a veterans down town in McHenry
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a March with
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a purpose they can't find that balance
and they marched to the courthouse where
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people could register to
vote so it was really
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a very peaceful way of. Handling
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a very bad situation this was 5 years
before Martin Luther King actually even got
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involved and started talking about violent
civil disobedience and back to that that
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case the marchers have an
encounter with police but it was
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a very peaceful when the sheriff's deputy
came over and said Hey you guys that the
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put those signs down and they basically
agreed but find out that they did stop
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marching and so there was none of the
violence there wasn't any looting there
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wasn't any burning vandalized anything.
What happened with that case of
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a white police the tell with you was in
keeping with the same kind of philosophy
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that Dr King was preaching during the
boycott which happened 5 years later Mom
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violence was disobedience this is so
deeply embedded into your life as
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a journalist were you shocked to see all
of the fires and looting and violence and
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destruction this time around we have never
seen anything like this before but we've
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seen
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a cycle of excessive force by white officers
against unarmed black men that for whatever
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reasons continues to happen as I was working
on the phone book doing my research
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and 2015 there was
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a whole rash of police brutality cases I
can't even name them all and so there were
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protests then and there were college students
who were protesting we didn't see the
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same level of it wasn't quite
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a powder keg that things that are wrapped
up in this situation but you know it
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happens and it keeps happening and that
was working on the book I met some people
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in Montgomery Alabama I didn't know if I
want to be in the neighborhood I used to
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live in as
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a little girl and there were signs on
people's aunts that said justice for Greg
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Gunn great comes with
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a black man who was walking down
the street one night and 2016 and
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a white police officer stopped him there
was an exchange an encounter of some kind
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and their arms are in the Payson him
facing him beating him and shooting him to
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death that didn't get adjudicated until
finally 2019 there were about 8 different
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judges some of them were found not fit to
handle the case some refuse themselves
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eventually the white police officers lawyers
asked for the trial to be moved they
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had
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a change of venue and I thought the white
officers legal defense team thought that
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would be better for him the case got
tribe rules towns in Alabama and
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a jury of mostly white people found
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a white police officer guilty. But
not of 1st degree murder it was of
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a lesser charge of manslaughter but it
was kind of a surprising verdict for
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a place in the Deep South and very unexpected
and as I ended the book it gave me
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kind of
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a glimmer of hope and now this what would
you say to the young people out there who
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say they're happy that the charges have
been amended and but that this isn't
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finished and they will stay out there what
would you say to them to encourage them
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to stay strong and keep fighting for the
justice they believe them I think they
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should stay out there and they should
continue to March and they should ignore the
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president calling for the military to come
again and confront them if they can keep
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their their demonstration peaceful to get
their point across they are understanding
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that the looting and the setting things
on fire isn't the answer though I had
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a conversation with
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a young man who went down to Lafayette Park
across from the White House and he says
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he's been involved in peaceful demonstrators
but that he has talked to some of the
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people who were doing the looting what
they were saying was that they felt that
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looting these big stores like their way of
Reese getting back reparations that they
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feel that they are do understand that but
I think they should continue I think you
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know you need more and better dialogue
between the races and with what I'm seeing
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that different now from what I saw him
earlier demonstrations back in the the fuse
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in the seventy's is that the
protesters seem to be largely
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a more diverse group more in black and
white people together but what's more
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important than anything else now is getting
people out to vote younger people and
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some of the millennium also have
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a history of not thinking that voting
is so important but if you want to make
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fundamental change got to change the
leadership at the top and you just gotta get
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to the polls make sure
you vote so you can make
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a difference for your ways Lurie London
speaking with Caribbean Greek used to
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journalist and author of the book the
daughter of the boy from. The away age of
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Delman American protesters are calling
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for defunding or abolishing police forces
in order to stop police brutality and
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racism already the Minneapolis city council
has announced plans to disband its
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police department for more on what is
behind the call to defund the police be
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always Jason Patinkin spoke
with Scott Hechinger who was
00:21:09
a public defense attorney in
New York City for close to
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a decade and now directs zealous that is
an advocacy organization that works with
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defense lawyers and the communities they
serve here as part of their conversation I
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think
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a lot of people maybe most people even might
think the idea of any city it let alone
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a major one existing without a police
force and you might think about this as
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a shock but as a public
defender for close to
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a decade and seeing what I've seen I think
it's far more shocking that we continue
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to allow our governments to invest
billions annually in what has been
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a failed strategy that undermine. Public
health that hails to solve crime flicks
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generational emotional and physical
violence in predominantly black and brown
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communities and the top of that doesn't
even make community safer the reality is
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that police are just not very good at doing
what we want them to do which is solve
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crime we've tried to reforming police
chief 1048 to 2016 we went through
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a whole round of reforms that are continuing
to today things like body cameras
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calling for police accountability calling
for more training at the Department of
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Justice coming in to states and investigating
overseeing local police forces and
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these reforms just don't work I think we
need and I think more people are starting
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to realize that we need
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a page went rewrite there's fear about
what that looks like but people are not
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being kept safe now I think the downside
and the risk would just be keeping the
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status quo looking at some of your personal
experiences Why do you think that it is
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necessary to defund or even get rid of
police departments I think of the young 1000
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year old boy in court who I was representing
and literal tears in his eyes scared
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to go to his corner store to pick up
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a sandwich for fear of being harassed by
the same police again stopped in France I
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think about all those black scratch marks
broken bones rips clothes and bruises and
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the lives that police over and over again
tell to justify their excessive use of
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force I think about every single one of
the thousands of people I met in the book
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Jordi of people are coming through the
system arrested for things that arise out of
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substance abuse disorder from poverty from
homelessness from mental health issues
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that would have been better served in
communities better health that better
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addiction and mental health
services poverty b.t.h.
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And affordable housing existed instead of
the billions spent the police and public
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health issues but bottom line is what I
have seen and what I have heard and what my
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colleagues have seen and heard in Syrian's
of the people we represent it's become
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clear that American policing is just broken
beyond repair Scott Hakan juror who now
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directs Zillah center and because the
organization that works with defense lawyer
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is in the communities they serve and
speaking with the always Jason particularly.
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Scientists the world over are looking for
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a back see it that protects against
covert 90 others is searching for
00:24:02
a treatment to knock out the virus until
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a back seat is available the always kill
Piers there are reports that researchers
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in Sweden are optimistic
about their work on
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a treatment that could slow the progression
of the disease and ease the symptoms
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and save lives and may become the world's
most famous alpaca researchers from the
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Karen Institute in Stockholm have immunized
him with Corona virus proteins and
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isolated tiny antibodies known as nano
bodies in his blood antibodies are
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proteins that are produced by your immune
system when it senses the body has been
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infected with
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a virus or and other foreign body the
proteins then try to kill it off now
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nobodies are far smaller than the antibodies
humans produce and in that nobody's
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buying to the same part of the buyer is
that human antibodies to Gerald McEntee is
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one of the scientists working on this
project so these are the antibodies that we
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took from the alpacas blood cells and we
can see that those antibodies are bound
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right on the surface exactly at the point
that the viral protein needs to get into
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cells so this gives us
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a structural understanding of how these
antibodies work to stop the infection
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mechanic says the results will be published
in a few months the work could lead to
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a drug that would help reduce
the amount of virus in
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a patient's blood while the immune
system develops its own response to the
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infection all the evidence would suggest
that it works very well in humans but it's
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a very complex system and so we look
forward to getting to do those experiments
00:25:46
a vaccine could take years to develop
which is why the scientists at the Karen
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Institute focused on developing a treatment
it could help stop the pandemic while
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a vaccine is being developed that offers
long term immunity. Carol Pearson v.o.a.
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News Washington. How dangerous is
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a covert nineteen's 80 percent of the cases
are said to be mild young and healthy
00:26:13
people are at
00:26:14
a relatively low risk elderly and people
with serious health conditions are at risk
00:26:19
of fatality if you have a car fever
and shortness of breath contact
00:26:24
a doctor and stay away from other people
for more information visit the websites of
00:26:29
the World Health Organization and the u.s.
00:26:31
Centers for Disease and Control the
message from your friends at v.o.a.
00:26:36
. North Korea said on Tuesday it will
sever hot lines with South Korea
00:26:43
as the 1st step toward shutting down all
contact with Seoul that according to the
00:26:48
state news agency k.c.
00:26:50
And
00:26:50
a Reuters Livy hope it reports the several
days North Korea has lashed out at South
00:26:56
Korea threatening to close
00:26:57
a liaison office and other projects if
the South does not stop defectors from
00:27:02
sending leaflets and other material into
the north and the abrupt move will come as
00:27:07
soon as noon on Tuesday when the North
will close lines of communication at both
00:27:13
then into Korean liaison office and
hotlines between the 2 militaries and
00:27:17
presidential offices on Tuesday morning
North Korean officials did not answer
00:27:22
a routine daily call to the liaison office
North calls on military hotlines Yonhap
00:27:28
News Agency reported the decision
to cut communications Mox
00:27:33
a setback in efforts to try and persuade
North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons
00:27:38
program in exchange for relief on tough
international sanctions the 2 Koreas remain
00:27:44
technically at war because the 952953
Korean Will ended with an honest us rather
00:27:51
than a peace treaty that was Reuters
Libby Hogan you're listening to v.o.a.
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Asia Australia spy cheap is warning of
00:28:00
a surgeon espionage extremist. Propaganda
and cyber crime during the cold the
00:28:05
crisis from Sydney Film Mercer reports
Kovac 19 has given hackers criminals and
00:28:12
terrorists a world of opportunity to exploit
Australians online Joran lockdowns in
00:28:18
a podcast with the Institute of
Public Administration Australia
00:28:23
a nonpartisan research body
00:28:25
a zio Chief Mike Burgess said the coronavirus
pandemic has provided opportunities
00:28:31
for criminals and extremists we've seen
more people at home and as they're at home
00:28:37
they're online and we've seen increased
chatter in the on line world when it comes
00:28:41
to the spread of extremist ideology
attempting to radicalize people so we've seen
00:28:46
more of that just as we've seen
more criminal behavior online stop
00:28:49
a crime which is well reported by other
agencies Burgess also criticised tech
00:28:54
companies for resisting requests by
security agencies to access information in
00:29:00
cyberspace Analysts say his comments are
00:29:03
a strong hints that Australia's intelligence
community wants new powers to access
00:29:09
and to ending cryptic contents it's
00:29:12
a move described by civil liberties campaigners
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a Teo later Kelly Gene Kelly will
present America's presidents but
00:30:28
1st. Gilliatt sciences is
said Monday it will charge
00:30:34
$2340.00 for usual treatment does appear
00:30:40
a drug that is used to shorten recovery
time for severely ill Kovac 19
00:30:46
patients however critics have called
the price and outrage because of
00:30:53
the amount taxpayers invested toward
its development the drug makers
00:31:00
said Monday that price would be for people
covered by government health programs in
00:31:06
the United States and other developed
countries for patients with private health
00:31:12
insurance the price would
be $3120.00 the amount
00:31:19
that patients actually pay
themselves could be lower. Chief
00:31:26
Executive Dan O'Day told the Associated
Press we're in uncharted territory
00:31:33
with pricing a new medicine
a novel medicine in
00:31:36
a pandemic. He added that the company
had to price the drug to ensure more
00:31:43
people can get them rather than
based only on value to patients
00:31:50
oday said the treatments that the
company has given to the u.s.
00:31:54
And other countries will run out in about
00:31:58
a week the prices will apply
to the drug after that in
00:32:05
the u.s.
00:32:05
Federal health officials have shared
the limited supply with states but the
00:32:12
agreement with Gillie ad will end after
September they said Monday that the
00:32:18
u.s.
00:32:19
Government has received more than $500000.00
additional treatments Gillie and will
00:32:25
begin production in July to supply
hospitals through September day
00:32:32
said there will be anough supply of room
does of air he added but we have to make
00:32:39
sure it's in the right place
at the right time in $127.00
00:32:46
poor or middle income countries Gilliatt
is preventing other drug makers to supply
00:32:51
the drug to countries are doing
that for about $600.00 for each
00:32:58
treatment room does appear became the 1st
medicine to show benefit in treating
00:33:04
Kovac 19 the disease has
killed more than 500000 people
00:33:10
worldwide in 6 months Rem does
appear restricts the coronaviruses
00:33:17
ability to copy its genetic material in
00:33:22
a us government led study the drug
shortened recovery time by 31 percent
00:33:30
patients recovered in 11 days on average
versus 15 days for those given just
00:33:36
usual care it had not improved
survival according to early
00:33:42
results after 2 weeks of follow
up. Results after 4 weeks are
00:33:49
expected soon the Institute for
Clinical and Economic Review is
00:33:55
a nonprofit group that studies drug prices
the group said rammed does of the air
00:34:01
would be cost effective between
4580 $1.00 and $5080.00
00:34:08
if it saved lives but recent news
that a less costly drug called that's
00:34:14
a mothers' own improves survival means Rem
does of the air should be priced between
00:34:20
2520 dollars and 2800 dollars This is
00:34:26
a high price for
00:34:28
a drug that has not been shown to reduce
mortality Dr Steven Nissen of the
00:34:33
Cleveland Clinic said in an e-mail given
the serious nature of the pandemic I would
00:34:40
prefer that the government take over
production and distribute the drug for free
00:34:46
Peter May bardak is
00:34:48
a lawyer at the consumer group Public
Citizen he called the price and
00:34:54
outrage this is
00:34:56
a drug that received at least $70000000.00
from the government toward its
00:35:01
development he said rim does of the
air should be in the public domain
00:35:09
Gilliatt says it will have spent $1000000000.00
on developing and making the drug
00:35:15
by the end of this year the drug can
be used for emergency ease in the
00:35:21
u.s.
00:35:22
And galia ad has asked for
full approval. Mississippi
00:35:59
lawmakers voted Sunday to remove the
Confederate flag emblem which dates
00:36:06
back to the u.s.
00:36:07
Civil war from the state's
flag the move had
00:36:14
wide support from both political
parties in the 2 houses of the state's
00:36:21
legislature people cheered the votes
and lawmakers hugged each other
00:36:29
governor Tate Reeves
00:36:31
a member of the Republican Party said
he will sign the bill and into law in
00:36:38
coming days Mississippi
is the last State of the
00:36:44
Confederacy to keep the
Confederate battle emblem on
00:36:49
a state flag the emblem
served as the flag for the 13
00:36:56
states that sought to withdraw from
the United States starting the civil
00:37:02
war in the 1860 s.
00:37:07
The emblem is widely considered
00:37:10
a sign of racial or pression
38 per cent of the state's
00:37:17
population is black
African-Americans and others have
00:37:24
pushed for the change for
years. Representative Robert
00:37:30
Johnson of the Natchez held back
2 years as he spoke to reporters
00:37:39
he said the Confederate emblem was
painful to him and other African
00:37:45
Americans he praised the
understanding that his white
00:37:52
colleagues had developed may
begin to understand and
00:37:58
feel the same thing that I've been
feeling for 61 years of my life
00:38:05
Johnson said a commission will design
00:38:10
a new flag the Confederate
emblem is barred from appearing
00:38:18
However the new flag is required
to have the words In God We
00:38:25
Trust on it House Speaker Philip gun has
00:38:31
supported changing the flag
for 5 years he said it was
00:38:38
offensive Mississippi's
House passed the bill
00:38:44
$91.00 to $23.00 on Sunday
and hours later the
00:38:51
Senate voted $37.00 to
$14.00 for the change
00:38:59
voters will decide on the new design
in the next election on November
00:39:06
3rd if they reject that design
the commission will create
00:39:12
a different one using
the same guidelines an
00:39:19
increasing number of cities and all
of the state's public universities
00:39:26
would not show the flag in
recent years. Religious groups
00:39:33
including the Mississippi Baptist
Convention said removing the emblem
00:39:40
was
00:39:41
a moral issue is no Scroope
said the flag hurt
00:39:48
economic development for the state
which is considered the poorest in the
00:39:54
nation in addition college
sports organizations
00:40:01
threatened to bar Mississippi schools
from some sporting events if the
00:40:08
state kept its flag However
many people in the
00:40:15
state said they wanted
to keep the emblem as
00:40:20
a sign of the state's history
law makers put the sign
00:40:26
a red field with a blue x.
00:40:30
Containing 13 stars in the upper
left of the Mississippi flag
00:40:37
in 181004 in 2000 the Mississippi
00:40:44
Supreme Court found that the
Confederate emblem was not included
00:40:50
when state laws were updated in 19006
00:40:57
This meant that the flag was not
official the issue was put to
00:41:04
a public vote but the people of
Mississippi voted to keep the
00:41:10
flag former governor William
Winter said removing the
00:41:17
Confederate emblem was long overdue
00:41:24
state senator Derek Simmons of the
Democratic Party said the state should have
00:41:31
a flag that makes all
people living in it proud.
00:41:38
History making day in the state
of Mississippi. Simmons' sad.
00:42:16
From v.o.a.
00:42:16
Learning English this is the health
and lifestyle report much of the
00:42:23
world is watching and waiting
for researchers to develop
00:42:28
a vaccine for the disease coated
19 but making anough of the
00:42:34
vaccine too and the coronavirus health
crisis will be the biggest medical
00:42:41
manufacturing feat in history
that work has started
00:42:48
researchers are currently setting
up testing involving 10230000
00:42:54
volunteers for every candidate
vaccine the scientists say they hope
00:43:01
to get an answer on whether
00:43:02
a vaccine works by as early as this
October however health officials
00:43:09
face
00:43:10
a hard reality the developer of
an effective vaccine may not be
00:43:17
able to make and deliver
billions of doses all at once
00:43:24
the Reuters News Agency spoke with over
10 vaccine developers and suppliers.
00:43:32
The United States government has
partnered with Johnson and Johnson on
00:43:37
a $1000000000.00 investment to speed up
development and production of its vaccine
00:43:44
even before it is proven to
work Johnson and Johnson signed
00:43:49
a deal with 2 other businesses emergent
bio solutions and cattle and to
00:43:56
manufacture large amounts in the United
States cattle and we'll also do some
00:44:03
Fill and Finish work never in
history has so much vaccine been
00:44:09
developed at the same time so
that capacity doesn't exist said
00:44:16
Paul Stoffel zx he is the chief
scientific officer at Johnson and Johnson
00:44:23
he said he believes that filling
capacity is the main limiting factor
00:44:30
Seth Berkley is head of gobby
the vaccines alliance he told
00:44:37
Reuters that experts estimate having $1.00
to $2000000000.00 doses of vaccine in
00:44:43
the 1st year spread out over the
world population He added that it is
00:44:50
unlikely to go straight from having 0
vaccines to having enough doses for
00:44:56
everyone gobby is
00:45:00
a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation its aim is to increase the
00:45:06
availability of vaccines and immunization
rates in developing countries
00:45:14
Colonel Nelson Michael is
the director of the u.s.
00:45:17
Army's Center for Infectious
Disease Research he is working on
00:45:23
a government project aimed at delivering
00:45:26
a coded 19 vaccine to the
world by January 2021.
00:45:32
Michael says that companies usually have
years to develop vaccines now he said
00:45:39
they have weeks one of the biggest
issues is an untested supply
00:45:46
chain how to get the vaccine to people
all around the world any problem in the
00:45:53
supply chain could delay or even wreck the
whole process and there could be other
00:46:00
problems in other words logistics
the term for organizing
00:46:06
a complex operation such as this is
00:46:09
a major concern this is the biggest
logistical challenge the world has
00:46:16
ever faced said Toby Peters he is an
engineering and technology expert
00:46:23
with Britain's Birmingham University
Peters told Reuters we could be looking at
00:46:30
vaccinating 60 percent of the
population companies and governments
00:46:36
must improve machines to be able to fill
that demand Currently there are not enough
00:46:43
machines that can fill and package the
vaccines for delivery once ready for
00:46:49
shipping many vaccines need to be kept
very cold some of the more promising
00:46:55
vaccines are made from genetic material
such as messenger are an essay
00:47:03
or m r n a vaccines people
who work with an r.
00:47:09
And a storage at minus 80 degrees
centigrade said Paul Offit
00:47:15
a co-inventor of the roto virus vaccine
he noted that such conditions are not
00:47:22
available at most doctors' offices he is
00:47:27
a doctor and directs the Vaccine Education
Center at the Children's Hospital of
00:47:32
Philadelphia. Peters of Birmingham University
has been gathering information from
00:47:39
poorer countries in Africa and Asia he
said that breaks in the temperature
00:47:45
controlled supply chain are already
happening companies such as
00:47:52
modernity are working to make candidate
vaccines that remain stable at higher
00:47:59
temperatures Colleen Hugh Sidey is
00:48:02
a spokesperson for modernity.
She told Reuters that for
00:48:08
a short amount of time these vaccines can
be stored in refrigeration equipment
00:48:14
found in doctors' offices or medical
centers She added We will know
00:48:21
more in the next 2 to 3 months and
that's the health and lifestyle report
00:48:28
on on
00:48:28
a Teo. Are you at risk
of getting seriously ill
00:48:35
from the new coronavirus Here are some
things to keep in mind 80 percent of
00:48:42
coronavirus cases are modern young
and healthy people are at low risk
00:48:48
other people and those with
serious health conditions have
00:48:52
a greater risk of serious illness
or even death if you have
00:48:57
a cough fever and difficulty breathing
contact the doctor and stay away from other
00:49:04
people. For more information visit the
World Health Organisation website at
00:49:11
w w w w h
00:49:14
o dot teeth or the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention at w
00:49:20
w
00:49:20
w dot cdc dot gun. We
00:49:31
were. The way the
00:49:38
rich he said it's America's
presidents. Today we are
00:49:45
talking about
00:49:46
a vice president John Tyler was William
Henry Harrison and partner on the
00:49:53
ticket in the $1840.00 election
he was the Tyler of the campaign
00:50:00
slogan typical new and Tyler
too but only one month
00:50:07
into his term as President Harrison
unexpectedly died he was the
00:50:13
1st Us president to die
in office today Americans
00:50:20
except that when that happens the vice
president becomes the president but in
00:50:27
1841 no one really knew what
to do so people turned to the
00:50:34
Constitution it's sad if the president
is removed from office or if he
00:50:40
dies resigns or is not able to
perform his duties his power and
00:50:47
responsibility is given to the vice
president but the meaning of those
00:50:54
words was unclear did the vice
president really become the president
00:51:01
or did the vice president just act like
the president of the Constitution may
00:51:08
not have been clear but John Tyler
was he claimed that after Harrison's
00:51:14
death he really was the President
Tyler made sure he was quickly
00:51:21
sworn in he answered only to the title
president he even refused to open
00:51:28
letters that were sent to acting
President Tyler. Eventually Americans
00:51:35
accepted John Tyler was the
nation's 10th president but some
00:51:42
Americans were not happy about that
fact during his presidency all but
00:51:49
one of Tyler's cabinet advisors
resigned and members of his own party
00:51:55
tried to impeach him RINGBACK.
00:52:07
Tyler was from the southern state of
Virginia home to 5 earlier us presidents
00:52:14
like many of the leaders before him he was
00:52:17
a lawyer from an upper class family who
owned slaves he strongly supported the
00:52:24
power of the states against the federal
government expansion of slavery and
00:52:31
rule by
00:52:32
a small elite group but the
United States was starting to
00:52:39
change for example President
John Quincy Adams had proposed
00:52:45
creating
00:52:46
a national system of roads the
Missouri Compromise of 820 limited
00:52:53
slavery in new states in the
northwest and in the 830 s.
00:52:59
Many white men who did not own
property earned the right to vote in
00:53:06
other words the u.s.
00:53:09
Was becoming more national
abolitionist and equal Tyler
00:53:15
resisted these changes he fought
against them as a member of the u.s.
00:53:21
House of Representatives a governor of
Virginia and a senator his fight reached
00:53:27
a crisis during the presidency of
00:53:30
a 100 Jackson. The 2 men belong to
the same party the Democratic Party
00:53:37
however Tyler hated Jackson's populist
policies and use of presidential
00:53:43
powers against the states
in the middle of the 830 s.
00:53:49
Tyler joined with several other
political leaders to create
00:53:53
a new anti Jackson party
they were called the weeks.
00:54:20
The new Whig party badly wanted to win
the 1840 presidential election against
00:54:26
Jackson's right hand man Martin Van Buren
they proposed John Tyler as the party's
00:54:33
vice presidential candidate because they
hoped he would appeal to Southern voters
00:54:40
the Whigs succeeded Tyler and Harrison won
the election the new party expected that
00:54:47
they would be able to achieve many of their
policy goals but then Harrison died and
00:54:54
Tyler unexpectedly became President
Tyler kept Harrison's cabinet of top
00:55:00
advisors but he did not accept
their advice Whig lawmakers
00:55:07
presented bill after bill to Tyler but
he failed to support the measures he
00:55:14
believed they gave too much power to the
federal government over the states in
00:55:20
anger all but one of Tyler's cabinet
members resigned then Whig leaders
00:55:26
officially declared that Tyler was no
longer part of their group. The following
00:55:32
here they even move to impeach him he
became known as a president without
00:55:39
a party Tyler was able to achieve
one major political act however
00:55:46
3 days before he left office he
signed the law that made Texas
00:55:51
a state perhaps wisely Tyler withdrew
from the next presidential election
00:55:59
he eventually withdrew even his support
for the federal government he became
00:56:04
a leader in the movement for Southern
succession in other words he believed the
00:56:11
Southern states had the right to separate
from the north and leave the union in
00:56:17
time the separation between the South
and North would lead to the Civil War.
00:56:41
Tyler was an unusual president he
took office in an unusual way and
00:56:48
he took the unusual step of vetoing
legislative action proposed by his own party
00:56:56
his family life has other unusual details
Tyler was the 1st president to get
00:57:02
married while in office he was the president
with the most children and 2 of his
00:57:09
grandchildren remained alive until
well into the 21st century in
00:57:15
844 Tyler married Julie
00:57:18
a gardener she was his 2nd wife his
1st wife Leticia had died 2 years
00:57:26
earlier. John and Leticia Tyler had
8 children together since Julie
00:57:32
a gardener Tyler was 24 years old 30
years younger than her new husband the 2
00:57:39
had plenty of time to have another 7
children and because one of their
00:57:46
sons had children in the 1920 s.
00:57:49
2 of Tyler's grandchildren are
still alive as of early 2017.
00:58:04
Tyler is not remembered as a good president
but he is remembered for establishing
00:58:11
a precedent
00:58:12
a way of doing something that other
people have followed the tiler president
00:58:18
permitted the peaceful transfer of power
from president to vice president in
00:58:24
1841 and it eased the transition after
other presidents have died since
00:58:31
then. In 1967 the
Constitution was even changed
00:58:38
to clarify what Tyler had claimed all
along when the president dies the vice
00:58:45
president becomes the new chief executive.
00:58:54
I'm Kelly Gene Kelly.
00:59:11
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories
00:59:18
from around the world Jonathan
Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson.
00:59:48
This is how we this is the way you speak
if I'm a recent melt and the top u.s.
00:59:53
Infectious disease expert Anthony Felty
told lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday that
00:59:58
the 40000 new cases of Corona virus the
United States is experiencing daily could
01:00:04
turn into $100000.00
01:00:06
a day if nothing changes but he also said
he is cautiously optimistic that some
01:00:10
useful vaccine could be available in the
perceivable future he said and vaccine
01:00:16
probably won't be available by the time
students are due to start school again
01:00:20
later this year. The European Union
said Tuesday visitors from 14
01:00:27
countries may now this is the e.u.
01:00:29
But not people from the United States
that's because some of the u.s.
01:00:33
States that pushed the hardest and earliest
to reopen their economies are now in
01:00:38
retreat due to an alarming surgeon
confirmed corona virus infections the e.u.
01:00:44
Extended its ban on travelers not just
from the United States but also from other
01:00:49
big countries such as Russia Brazil and
India all of which are seeing rapidly
01:00:55
rising k. .
00:00:00
Rable and extend an arms embargo due
to expire in October from Peo told
00:00:05
a virtual meeting of the council that
renewing the embargo will exert more pressure
00:00:10
on Tehran to start behaving
like what he called
00:00:13
a normal nation the meeting is held twice
00:00:16
a year to review implementation of the
resolution endorsing the 2015 Iran nuclear
00:00:22
deal President Donald Trump withdrew from
the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and
00:00:29
reimposed all u.s.
00:00:30
Sanctions that had been lifted or waived
under the agreement in response Iran
00:00:35
stopped carrying out its nuclear commitments
in January Tehran said it would no
00:00:40
longer it here to limits on the numbers of
its uranium enriched centrifuges. Senior
00:00:47
u.s. Lawmakers walked out of
00:00:48
a White House briefing early Tuesday
saying they're not satisfied with what the
00:00:53
trumpet ministration had to say about
allegations that Russia offered bounties to
00:00:58
Taliban fighters to kill American and
coalition troops in Afghanistan President
00:01:04
Trump and various White House officials
have maintained that the president was
00:01:08
never briefed on intelligence regarding the
reported reported plot but some senior
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officials say the evidence
was shared across the u.s.
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Intelligence community and with allies whose
troops are potentially at risk meaning
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media reports by the New York Times c.n.n.
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And others also indicated that some of
the information was included in the
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Presidential Daily Brief
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a daily summary of top intelligence issues
in late February House Armed Services
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Committee chairman Adam Smith
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a Democrat told reporters the White House
did not have very clear answers. From
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Washington d.c.
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Or listening to be news. Belgium's King
Phillipe expressed regret Tuesday for
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75 years of his country's exploitative rule
in the Democratic Republic of Congo the
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King spoke on the African countries 60th
anniversary of independence he said in
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a letter to Congress President I want to
express my deepest regret for these past
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injuries the pain of which is regularly
revived by the discrimination that is still
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all too present in our society's statement
is the closest reigning Belgian monarch
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has ever come to an apology the Congo
gained independence from Belgium in 1960
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millions of Congolese died under Belgian
rule which exploited land and people for
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rubber copper diamonds gold and other
natural resources. Britain says it will not
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turn its back on the commitments it has
made to former colony Hong Kong Foreign
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Minister Dominic Robb made the pledge on
Tuesday he said China has broken promises
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with its new security law for the territory
under the new law which was passed and
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signed on Tuesday crimes of secession and
sedition will be punishable with up to
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life in prison earlier Rob said Britain
wanted to see details of the new law before
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deciding on an action the u.s.
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Commerce Department said Tuesday it will
allow exports of some goods to Hong Kong
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through the end of August under existing
license exceptions after it announced it
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was suspending those exceptions on Monday
the department said it as it was taking
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the action because of China's new security
measures the Commerce Department said
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licenses will need to be
obtained going forward and u.s.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for
sanctions and other steps against China
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billows he said the brutal law and her
words would frighten and suppress those
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peacefully seeking freedom and Iranian
journalist whose online work helped inspire
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nationwide economic protests and 2017 has
been sentenced to death for his actions
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a judiciary spokesman announced
Ruhollah sentence on Tuesday website
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a mod news and
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a channel he created on the popular messaging
app telegram had informed people on
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the timing of the protests and published
embarrassing information about Iranian
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officials the 27000 protests represented
the biggest challenge to Iran since
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post-election mass unrest in 2009 and
they set the stage for similar revolts in
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November 29th teen the
judiciary spokesman said
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a revolutionary court had convicted of
corruption charges often leveled in cases
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involving espionage or attempts to overthrow
Iran's government can appeal his case
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to the Supreme Court of a remote I'm
arisen Melton from Washington d.c.
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You're listening to v.o.a.
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News.
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Issue is to prove it's to prove
that one country 2 systems.
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Thousands in hung Congress show their
disagreement with their government leader
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this is Wednesday June 10th
and this is be a way a.j.
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I might remember and in Washington also
ahead as George Will it is buried protests
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continue with the u.s.
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Over his death we'll hear from an
author who has written about the racial
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discrimination in the United States throughout
the years Australian officials claim
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massive security hacks among the people
of that country it is all on today's be
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away. Riot police officers charged that
thousands of protesters who defied
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a police ban to mark the 1st anniversary
of the city's anti-government movement
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Tuesday night people began gathering at
the downtown shattered garden in the
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business district of central in the late
afternoon some held up banners saying hung
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Kang independence and shouting slogans
dozens of riot police the said did on them
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and conducted body searches on many they
offered grounds to leave saying they were
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taking part in an unapproved gathering and
would arrest that if they did not abide
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a man who swore at police officers was
swiftly detained while Crown's chanted
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anti-police slogans later protestors
spilled on to streets and merge with
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a crowd that was leaving work in the
financial district people formed
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a line and started marching as they chanted
slogans held up torch lights on their
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mobile phones and waved banners mostly
emblazoned with messages to make the
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independence from China many also put up
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a bill that is in case police fired tear
gas supporters of the movement say their
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feelings on the Emperor's free range from
hope to fear more from Reuters and or
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McCarthy. This high school student says his
dream is for the Chinese Communist. To
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let go and give back and free Hong Kong
from the protests succeeded in forcing it
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back down by the Hong Kong government
on proposed legislation that would have
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allowed extradition to mainland China but
had you later authorities in Beijing
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a draft in national security the list
that activists fear would fear the kook
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freedoms we see that golfing dummy said
you. Know what to say to the class that I
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will fight if I behave I don't like
to assemble. So you get the feeling
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that the. Demonstrations over the past
year often turned violent with police
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responding with tear gas and rubber bullets
the protests have strong support among
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Hong Kong 7500000 people according to
opinion polls but about one 3rd of the
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population opposed and protest is giving
up hard copy was showing the group I
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think like I was never like you I was
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thinking what was the right state
and I was the international force
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and I still was. Right was. The
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right way to was that was Reuters and
were McCarthy report city Peter Carey
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Lemon unpopular probe aging appointee
who was peppered with questions from
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reporters Tuesday about the unrest on her
tenure Hong Kong cannot afford such chaos
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she said adding all sides needed to learn
lessons binmen their issue is to proof as
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to proof that one country 2 systems work
works well in Hong Kong and to prove that
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Hong Kong people are reasonable and sensible
citizens of the People's Republic of
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China that we could be trusted. To
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a continue to have our own way off life and
our own way off system within the whole
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country some of the protesters on the streets
of Hong Kong held placards reading we
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can't breathe free h.k.
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And young ladies matter not to us protest
against police brutality sparked by the
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death of African American George flowrate
more on that coming up. These are
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Samsung groups think alarm or it New
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Asia continues in the states of Texas and
North Carolina hundreds gathered to say
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their final goodbyes to George Floyd the
man who died after being in police custody
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in the state of Minnesota
while in Washington d.c.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced
sweeping legislation to combat police
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violence and racial injustice be
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a way corresponded Mariama the yellow has
more we are here to honor your wife's
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family House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
let House and Senate Democrats in
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a moment of sad. And sad the Capitol's
emancipation hall they took
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a need for nearly 9 minutes to symbolize
the length of time prosecutors say George
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Freud him cuffed and
face down was pinned and
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a white police officers leave before
he was later pronounced dead at
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a Minnesota hospital. Floyd's
death squads the world wide
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protest against police brutality and
with children justice over the weekend
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thousands more continue to protest.
Florida's death also prompted the National
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Football League commissioner Roger Goodell
to say that the league was wrong for not
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listening earlier to players fighting for
racial equality we have the National
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Football League believe lives
matter I personally protest with
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you and want to be part of
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a much needed change in this country
without black players there would be no
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national. And the protests around the
country are emblematic of the centuries of
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silence inequality in
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a professional black players coaches. And
staff Meanwhile in Minneapolis Floyd's
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girlfriend and others gathered at
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a park on Saturday to remember
fluid and release balloons took on
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a lives lost at the hands of law
enforcement Floyd is here went back.
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And. I've been wanting for
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a long time and whatever religion you are
away however you pray and want to thank
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me with the people that love him and
support us and his bank but God Thank you
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Father guy for giving us following through
it was also remembered in his North
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Carolina home town by
mourners who waited hours for
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a glimpse of his golden
calf send. Them. My.
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Dad. And in Houston Texas the final of
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a series of memory I was in floods honor
the public was able to view his casket at
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the fountain of Praise Church. My
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b.m.i. Down to the away
news. Happening then with
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a good Malaysia will last Bangladesh to
take back about 300 real Hindu refugees
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detainees Depor
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a boat carrying them either to its waters
this week according to the Southeast
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Asian nations defense minister of Malaysia
does not recognize refugee status but it
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has been
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a favorite destination for revenue growth
in just stay up to date with the way
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you're listening to deal
with the Asia. We're
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happy you're with us and be aware that Asia
not since the Civil Rights Movement of
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the 1950 s.
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And 6. These as the United States with
the such and. Many of those protesting
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say the death of George the breaking of
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a long list of African American deaths at
the hands of these as well as 400 years
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of racial. Spoke with Karen great
journalist and author of the book.
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My book Start with the case of white
police brutality there was Manning he was
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Brooks who was
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a friend of my father's and like my dad
was also on War 2 veteran and he tried to
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get a ride on
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a bus downtown one back in 1950 police
officer was called he had been acting flunk
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and disorderly However when the
police officer arrived he took out
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a gun and shot and killed
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a person and how it differs from how people
are responding now my father and that
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commander at the school where they were
teaching veterans like Catholic black
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Catholic school and decided to write
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a letter to you Michel to the mayor and
to the police chief and say we want that
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police officer prosecuted to the extent
of the law well that didn't happen the
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white police review board found that it
was a justifiable shooting at them like
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a. Gentleman they organize a massive
March a veterans down town in McHenry
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a March with
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a purpose they can't find that balance
and they marched to the courthouse where
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people could register to
vote so it was really
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a very peaceful way of. Handling
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a very bad situation this was 5 years
before Martin Luther King actually even got
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involved and started talking about violent
civil disobedience and back to that that
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case the marchers have an
encounter with police but it was
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a very peaceful when the sheriff's deputy
came over and said Hey you guys that the
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put those signs down and they basically
agreed but find out that they did stop
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marching and so there was none of the
violence there wasn't any looting there
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wasn't any burning vandalized anything.
What happened with that case of
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a white police the tell with you was in
keeping with the same kind of philosophy
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that Dr King was preaching during the
boycott which happened 5 years later Mom
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violence was disobedience this is so
deeply embedded into your life as
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a journalist were you shocked to see all
of the fires and looting and violence and
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destruction this time around we have never
seen anything like this before but we've
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seen
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a cycle of excessive force by white officers
against unarmed black men that for whatever
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reasons continues to happen as I was working
on the phone book doing my research
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and 2015 there was
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a whole rash of police brutality cases I
can't even name them all and so there were
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protests then and there were college students
who were protesting we didn't see the
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same level of it wasn't quite
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a powder keg that things that are wrapped
up in this situation but you know it
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happens and it keeps happening and that
was working on the book I met some people
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in Montgomery Alabama I didn't know if I
want to be in the neighborhood I used to
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live in as
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a little girl and there were signs on
people's aunts that said justice for Greg
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Gunn great comes with
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a black man who was walking down
the street one night and 2016 and
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a white police officer stopped him there
was an exchange an encounter of some kind
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and their arms are in the Payson him
facing him beating him and shooting him to
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death that didn't get adjudicated until
finally 2019 there were about 8 different
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judges some of them were found not fit to
handle the case some refuse themselves
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eventually the white police officers lawyers
asked for the trial to be moved they
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had
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a change of venue and I thought the white
officers legal defense team thought that
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would be better for him the case got
tribe rules towns in Alabama and
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a jury of mostly white people found
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a white police officer guilty. But
not of 1st degree murder it was of
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a lesser charge of manslaughter but it
was kind of a surprising verdict for
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a place in the Deep South and very unexpected
and as I ended the book it gave me
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kind of
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a glimmer of hope and now this what would
you say to the young people out there who
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say they're happy that the charges have
been amended and but that this isn't
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finished and they will stay out there what
would you say to them to encourage them
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to stay strong and keep fighting for the
justice they believe them I think they
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should stay out there and they should
continue to March and they should ignore the
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president calling for the military to come
again and confront them if they can keep
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their their demonstration peaceful to get
their point across they are understanding
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that the looting and the setting things
on fire isn't the answer though I had
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a conversation with
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a young man who went down to Lafayette Park
across from the White House and he says
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he's been involved in peaceful demonstrators
but that he has talked to some of the
00:18:50
people who were doing the looting what
they were saying was that they felt that
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looting these big stores like their way of
Reese getting back reparations that they
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feel that they are do understand that but
I think they should continue I think you
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know you need more and better dialogue
between the races and with what I'm seeing
00:19:08
that different now from what I saw him
earlier demonstrations back in the the fuse
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in the seventy's is that the
protesters seem to be largely
00:19:15
a more diverse group more in black and
white people together but what's more
00:19:20
important than anything else now is getting
people out to vote younger people and
00:19:24
some of the millennium also have
00:19:26
a history of not thinking that voting
is so important but if you want to make
00:19:30
fundamental change got to change the
leadership at the top and you just gotta get
00:19:35
to the polls make sure
you vote so you can make
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a difference for your ways Lurie London
speaking with Caribbean Greek used to
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journalist and author of the book the
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Delman American protesters are calling
00:20:48
for defunding or abolishing police forces
in order to stop police brutality and
00:20:54
racism already the Minneapolis city council
has announced plans to disband its
00:21:00
police department for more on what is
behind the call to defund the police be
00:21:06
always Jason Patinkin spoke
with Scott Hechinger who was
00:21:09
a public defense attorney in
New York City for close to
00:21:12
a decade and now directs zealous that is
an advocacy organization that works with
00:21:18
defense lawyers and the communities they
serve here as part of their conversation I
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think
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a lot of people maybe most people even might
think the idea of any city it let alone
00:21:30
a major one existing without a police
force and you might think about this as
00:21:35
a shock but as a public
defender for close to
00:21:37
a decade and seeing what I've seen I think
it's far more shocking that we continue
00:21:42
to allow our governments to invest
billions annually in what has been
00:21:47
a failed strategy that undermine. Public
health that hails to solve crime flicks
00:21:52
generational emotional and physical
violence in predominantly black and brown
00:21:56
communities and the top of that doesn't
even make community safer the reality is
00:22:00
that police are just not very good at doing
what we want them to do which is solve
00:22:05
crime we've tried to reforming police
chief 1048 to 2016 we went through
00:22:10
a whole round of reforms that are continuing
to today things like body cameras
00:22:14
calling for police accountability calling
for more training at the Department of
00:22:18
Justice coming in to states and investigating
overseeing local police forces and
00:22:23
these reforms just don't work I think we
need and I think more people are starting
00:22:27
to realize that we need
00:22:28
a page went rewrite there's fear about
what that looks like but people are not
00:22:32
being kept safe now I think the downside
and the risk would just be keeping the
00:22:37
status quo looking at some of your personal
experiences Why do you think that it is
00:22:42
necessary to defund or even get rid of
police departments I think of the young 1000
00:22:47
year old boy in court who I was representing
and literal tears in his eyes scared
00:22:51
to go to his corner store to pick up
00:22:53
a sandwich for fear of being harassed by
the same police again stopped in France I
00:22:58
think about all those black scratch marks
broken bones rips clothes and bruises and
00:23:04
the lives that police over and over again
tell to justify their excessive use of
00:23:08
force I think about every single one of
the thousands of people I met in the book
00:23:11
Jordi of people are coming through the
system arrested for things that arise out of
00:23:16
substance abuse disorder from poverty from
homelessness from mental health issues
00:23:21
that would have been better served in
communities better health that better
00:23:23
addiction and mental health
services poverty b.t.h.
00:23:26
And affordable housing existed instead of
the billions spent the police and public
00:23:30
health issues but bottom line is what I
have seen and what I have heard and what my
00:23:36
colleagues have seen and heard in Syrian's
of the people we represent it's become
00:23:40
clear that American policing is just broken
beyond repair Scott Hakan juror who now
00:23:45
directs Zillah center and because the
organization that works with defense lawyer
00:23:49
is in the communities they serve and
speaking with the always Jason particularly.
00:23:55
Scientists the world over are looking for
00:23:57
a back see it that protects against
covert 90 others is searching for
00:24:02
a treatment to knock out the virus until
00:24:05
a back seat is available the always kill
Piers there are reports that researchers
00:24:10
in Sweden are optimistic
about their work on
00:24:12
a treatment that could slow the progression
of the disease and ease the symptoms
00:24:17
and save lives and may become the world's
most famous alpaca researchers from the
00:24:23
Karen Institute in Stockholm have immunized
him with Corona virus proteins and
00:24:30
isolated tiny antibodies known as nano
bodies in his blood antibodies are
00:24:36
proteins that are produced by your immune
system when it senses the body has been
00:24:41
infected with
00:24:42
a virus or and other foreign body the
proteins then try to kill it off now
00:24:49
nobodies are far smaller than the antibodies
humans produce and in that nobody's
00:24:55
buying to the same part of the buyer is
that human antibodies to Gerald McEntee is
00:25:01
one of the scientists working on this
project so these are the antibodies that we
00:25:05
took from the alpacas blood cells and we
can see that those antibodies are bound
00:25:12
right on the surface exactly at the point
that the viral protein needs to get into
00:25:16
cells so this gives us
00:25:18
a structural understanding of how these
antibodies work to stop the infection
00:25:22
mechanic says the results will be published
in a few months the work could lead to
00:25:27
a drug that would help reduce
the amount of virus in
00:25:31
a patient's blood while the immune
system develops its own response to the
00:25:35
infection all the evidence would suggest
that it works very well in humans but it's
00:25:41
a very complex system and so we look
forward to getting to do those experiments
00:25:46
a vaccine could take years to develop
which is why the scientists at the Karen
00:25:52
Institute focused on developing a treatment
it could help stop the pandemic while
00:25:58
a vaccine is being developed that offers
long term immunity. Carol Pearson v.o.a.
00:26:04
News Washington. How dangerous is
00:26:08
a covert nineteen's 80 percent of the cases
are said to be mild young and healthy
00:26:13
people are at
00:26:14
a relatively low risk elderly and people
with serious health conditions are at risk
00:26:19
of fatality if you have a car fever
and shortness of breath contact
00:26:24
a doctor and stay away from other people
for more information visit the websites of
00:26:29
the World Health Organization and the u.s.
00:26:31
Centers for Disease and Control the
message from your friends at v.o.a.
00:26:36
. North Korea said on Tuesday it will
sever hot lines with South Korea
00:26:43
as the 1st step toward shutting down all
contact with Seoul that according to the
00:26:48
state news agency k.c.
00:26:50
And
00:26:50
a Reuters Livy hope it reports the several
days North Korea has lashed out at South
00:26:56
Korea threatening to close
00:26:57
a liaison office and other projects if
the South does not stop defectors from
00:27:02
sending leaflets and other material into
the north and the abrupt move will come as
00:27:07
soon as noon on Tuesday when the North
will close lines of communication at both
00:27:13
then into Korean liaison office and
hotlines between the 2 militaries and
00:27:17
presidential offices on Tuesday morning
North Korean officials did not answer
00:27:22
a routine daily call to the liaison office
North calls on military hotlines Yonhap
00:27:28
News Agency reported the decision
to cut communications Mox
00:27:33
a setback in efforts to try and persuade
North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons
00:27:38
program in exchange for relief on tough
international sanctions the 2 Koreas remain
00:27:44
technically at war because the 952953
Korean Will ended with an honest us rather
00:27:51
than a peace treaty that was Reuters
Libby Hogan you're listening to v.o.a.
00:27:57
Asia Australia spy cheap is warning of
00:28:00
a surgeon espionage extremist. Propaganda
and cyber crime during the cold the
00:28:05
crisis from Sydney Film Mercer reports
Kovac 19 has given hackers criminals and
00:28:12
terrorists a world of opportunity to exploit
Australians online Joran lockdowns in
00:28:18
a podcast with the Institute of
Public Administration Australia
00:28:23
a nonpartisan research body
00:28:25
a zio Chief Mike Burgess said the coronavirus
pandemic has provided opportunities
00:28:31
for criminals and extremists we've seen
more people at home and as they're at home
00:28:37
they're online and we've seen increased
chatter in the on line world when it comes
00:28:41
to the spread of extremist ideology
attempting to radicalize people so we've seen
00:28:46
more of that just as we've seen
more criminal behavior online stop
00:28:49
a crime which is well reported by other
agencies Burgess also criticised tech
00:28:54
companies for resisting requests by
security agencies to access information in
00:29:00
cyberspace Analysts say his comments are
00:29:03
a strong hints that Australia's intelligence
community wants new powers to access
00:29:09
and to ending cryptic contents it's
00:29:12
a move described by civil liberties campaigners
as a power grab film surfer v.o.a.
00:29:19
News Sydney. Thank you for joining us thanks
to we're managing editor day our bill
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we aged he includes the Bernard the play
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a rebel with
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a war she didn't please be careful
they say enjoy your day. Welcome
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a daily 30 minute program from the Voice
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Ashley Thompson this program is aimed
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especially written for people learning
00:30:13
English. Today on the program
you will hear from Mario Ritter
00:30:20
Jr and on I'm
00:30:21
a Teo later Kelly Gene Kelly will
present America's presidents but
00:30:28
1st. Gilliatt sciences is
said Monday it will charge
00:30:34
$2340.00 for usual treatment does appear
00:30:40
a drug that is used to shorten recovery
time for severely ill Kovac 19
00:30:46
patients however critics have called
the price and outrage because of
00:30:53
the amount taxpayers invested toward
its development the drug makers
00:31:00
said Monday that price would be for people
covered by government health programs in
00:31:06
the United States and other developed
countries for patients with private health
00:31:12
insurance the price would
be $3120.00 the amount
00:31:19
that patients actually pay
themselves could be lower. Chief
00:31:26
Executive Dan O'Day told the Associated
Press we're in uncharted territory
00:31:33
with pricing a new medicine
a novel medicine in
00:31:36
a pandemic. He added that the company
had to price the drug to ensure more
00:31:43
people can get them rather than
based only on value to patients
00:31:50
oday said the treatments that the
company has given to the u.s.
00:31:54
And other countries will run out in about
00:31:58
a week the prices will apply
to the drug after that in
00:32:05
the u.s.
00:32:05
Federal health officials have shared
the limited supply with states but the
00:32:12
agreement with Gillie ad will end after
September they said Monday that the
00:32:18
u.s.
00:32:19
Government has received more than $500000.00
additional treatments Gillie and will
00:32:25
begin production in July to supply
hospitals through September day
00:32:32
said there will be anough supply of room
does of air he added but we have to make
00:32:39
sure it's in the right place
at the right time in $127.00
00:32:46
poor or middle income countries Gilliatt
is preventing other drug makers to supply
00:32:51
the drug to countries are doing
that for about $600.00 for each
00:32:58
treatment room does appear became the 1st
medicine to show benefit in treating
00:33:04
Kovac 19 the disease has
killed more than 500000 people
00:33:10
worldwide in 6 months Rem does
appear restricts the coronaviruses
00:33:17
ability to copy its genetic material in
00:33:22
a us government led study the drug
shortened recovery time by 31 percent
00:33:30
patients recovered in 11 days on average
versus 15 days for those given just
00:33:36
usual care it had not improved
survival according to early
00:33:42
results after 2 weeks of follow
up. Results after 4 weeks are
00:33:49
expected soon the Institute for
Clinical and Economic Review is
00:33:55
a nonprofit group that studies drug prices
the group said rammed does of the air
00:34:01
would be cost effective between
4580 $1.00 and $5080.00
00:34:08
if it saved lives but recent news
that a less costly drug called that's
00:34:14
a mothers' own improves survival means Rem
does of the air should be priced between
00:34:20
2520 dollars and 2800 dollars This is
00:34:26
a high price for
00:34:28
a drug that has not been shown to reduce
mortality Dr Steven Nissen of the
00:34:33
Cleveland Clinic said in an e-mail given
the serious nature of the pandemic I would
00:34:40
prefer that the government take over
production and distribute the drug for free
00:34:46
Peter May bardak is
00:34:48
a lawyer at the consumer group Public
Citizen he called the price and
00:34:54
outrage this is
00:34:56
a drug that received at least $70000000.00
from the government toward its
00:35:01
development he said rim does of the
air should be in the public domain
00:35:09
Gilliatt says it will have spent $1000000000.00
on developing and making the drug
00:35:15
by the end of this year the drug can
be used for emergency ease in the
00:35:21
u.s.
00:35:22
And galia ad has asked for
full approval. Mississippi
00:35:59
lawmakers voted Sunday to remove the
Confederate flag emblem which dates
00:36:06
back to the u.s.
00:36:07
Civil war from the state's
flag the move had
00:36:14
wide support from both political
parties in the 2 houses of the state's
00:36:21
legislature people cheered the votes
and lawmakers hugged each other
00:36:29
governor Tate Reeves
00:36:31
a member of the Republican Party said
he will sign the bill and into law in
00:36:38
coming days Mississippi
is the last State of the
00:36:44
Confederacy to keep the
Confederate battle emblem on
00:36:49
a state flag the emblem
served as the flag for the 13
00:36:56
states that sought to withdraw from
the United States starting the civil
00:37:02
war in the 1860 s.
00:37:07
The emblem is widely considered
00:37:10
a sign of racial or pression
38 per cent of the state's
00:37:17
population is black
African-Americans and others have
00:37:24
pushed for the change for
years. Representative Robert
00:37:30
Johnson of the Natchez held back
2 years as he spoke to reporters
00:37:39
he said the Confederate emblem was
painful to him and other African
00:37:45
Americans he praised the
understanding that his white
00:37:52
colleagues had developed may
begin to understand and
00:37:58
feel the same thing that I've been
feeling for 61 years of my life
00:38:05
Johnson said a commission will design
00:38:10
a new flag the Confederate
emblem is barred from appearing
00:38:18
However the new flag is required
to have the words In God We
00:38:25
Trust on it House Speaker Philip gun has
00:38:31
supported changing the flag
for 5 years he said it was
00:38:38
offensive Mississippi's
House passed the bill
00:38:44
$91.00 to $23.00 on Sunday
and hours later the
00:38:51
Senate voted $37.00 to
$14.00 for the change
00:38:59
voters will decide on the new design
in the next election on November
00:39:06
3rd if they reject that design
the commission will create
00:39:12
a different one using
the same guidelines an
00:39:19
increasing number of cities and all
of the state's public universities
00:39:26
would not show the flag in
recent years. Religious groups
00:39:33
including the Mississippi Baptist
Convention said removing the emblem
00:39:40
was
00:39:41
a moral issue is no Scroope
said the flag hurt
00:39:48
economic development for the state
which is considered the poorest in the
00:39:54
nation in addition college
sports organizations
00:40:01
threatened to bar Mississippi schools
from some sporting events if the
00:40:08
state kept its flag However
many people in the
00:40:15
state said they wanted
to keep the emblem as
00:40:20
a sign of the state's history
law makers put the sign
00:40:26
a red field with a blue x.
00:40:30
Containing 13 stars in the upper
left of the Mississippi flag
00:40:37
in 181004 in 2000 the Mississippi
00:40:44
Supreme Court found that the
Confederate emblem was not included
00:40:50
when state laws were updated in 19006
00:40:57
This meant that the flag was not
official the issue was put to
00:41:04
a public vote but the people of
Mississippi voted to keep the
00:41:10
flag former governor William
Winter said removing the
00:41:17
Confederate emblem was long overdue
00:41:24
state senator Derek Simmons of the
Democratic Party said the state should have
00:41:31
a flag that makes all
people living in it proud.
00:41:38
History making day in the state
of Mississippi. Simmons' sad.
00:42:16
From v.o.a.
00:42:16
Learning English this is the health
and lifestyle report much of the
00:42:23
world is watching and waiting
for researchers to develop
00:42:28
a vaccine for the disease coated
19 but making anough of the
00:42:34
vaccine too and the coronavirus health
crisis will be the biggest medical
00:42:41
manufacturing feat in history
that work has started
00:42:48
researchers are currently setting
up testing involving 10230000
00:42:54
volunteers for every candidate
vaccine the scientists say they hope
00:43:01
to get an answer on whether
00:43:02
a vaccine works by as early as this
October however health officials
00:43:09
face
00:43:10
a hard reality the developer of
an effective vaccine may not be
00:43:17
able to make and deliver
billions of doses all at once
00:43:24
the Reuters News Agency spoke with over
10 vaccine developers and suppliers.
00:43:32
The United States government has
partnered with Johnson and Johnson on
00:43:37
a $1000000000.00 investment to speed up
development and production of its vaccine
00:43:44
even before it is proven to
work Johnson and Johnson signed
00:43:49
a deal with 2 other businesses emergent
bio solutions and cattle and to
00:43:56
manufacture large amounts in the United
States cattle and we'll also do some
00:44:03
Fill and Finish work never in
history has so much vaccine been
00:44:09
developed at the same time so
that capacity doesn't exist said
00:44:16
Paul Stoffel zx he is the chief
scientific officer at Johnson and Johnson
00:44:23
he said he believes that filling
capacity is the main limiting factor
00:44:30
Seth Berkley is head of gobby
the vaccines alliance he told
00:44:37
Reuters that experts estimate having $1.00
to $2000000000.00 doses of vaccine in
00:44:43
the 1st year spread out over the
world population He added that it is
00:44:50
unlikely to go straight from having 0
vaccines to having enough doses for
00:44:56
everyone gobby is
00:45:00
a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation its aim is to increase the
00:45:06
availability of vaccines and immunization
rates in developing countries
00:45:14
Colonel Nelson Michael is
the director of the u.s.
00:45:17
Army's Center for Infectious
Disease Research he is working on
00:45:23
a government project aimed at delivering
00:45:26
a coded 19 vaccine to the
world by January 2021.
00:45:32
Michael says that companies usually have
years to develop vaccines now he said
00:45:39
they have weeks one of the biggest
issues is an untested supply
00:45:46
chain how to get the vaccine to people
all around the world any problem in the
00:45:53
supply chain could delay or even wreck the
whole process and there could be other
00:46:00
problems in other words logistics
the term for organizing
00:46:06
a complex operation such as this is
00:46:09
a major concern this is the biggest
logistical challenge the world has
00:46:16
ever faced said Toby Peters he is an
engineering and technology expert
00:46:23
with Britain's Birmingham University
Peters told Reuters we could be looking at
00:46:30
vaccinating 60 percent of the
population companies and governments
00:46:36
must improve machines to be able to fill
that demand Currently there are not enough
00:46:43
machines that can fill and package the
vaccines for delivery once ready for
00:46:49
shipping many vaccines need to be kept
very cold some of the more promising
00:46:55
vaccines are made from genetic material
such as messenger are an essay
00:47:03
or m r n a vaccines people
who work with an r.
00:47:09
And a storage at minus 80 degrees
centigrade said Paul Offit
00:47:15
a co-inventor of the roto virus vaccine
he noted that such conditions are not
00:47:22
available at most doctors' offices he is
00:47:27
a doctor and directs the Vaccine Education
Center at the Children's Hospital of
00:47:32
Philadelphia. Peters of Birmingham University
has been gathering information from
00:47:39
poorer countries in Africa and Asia he
said that breaks in the temperature
00:47:45
controlled supply chain are already
happening companies such as
00:47:52
modernity are working to make candidate
vaccines that remain stable at higher
00:47:59
temperatures Colleen Hugh Sidey is
00:48:02
a spokesperson for modernity.
She told Reuters that for
00:48:08
a short amount of time these vaccines can
be stored in refrigeration equipment
00:48:14
found in doctors' offices or medical
centers She added We will know
00:48:21
more in the next 2 to 3 months and
that's the health and lifestyle report
00:48:28
on on
00:48:28
a Teo. Are you at risk
of getting seriously ill
00:48:35
from the new coronavirus Here are some
things to keep in mind 80 percent of
00:48:42
coronavirus cases are modern young
and healthy people are at low risk
00:48:48
other people and those with
serious health conditions have
00:48:52
a greater risk of serious illness
or even death if you have
00:48:57
a cough fever and difficulty breathing
contact the doctor and stay away from other
00:49:04
people. For more information visit the
World Health Organisation website at
00:49:11
w w w w h
00:49:14
o dot teeth or the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention at w
00:49:20
w
00:49:20
w dot cdc dot gun. We
00:49:31
were. The way the
00:49:38
rich he said it's America's
presidents. Today we are
00:49:45
talking about
00:49:46
a vice president John Tyler was William
Henry Harrison and partner on the
00:49:53
ticket in the $1840.00 election
he was the Tyler of the campaign
00:50:00
slogan typical new and Tyler
too but only one month
00:50:07
into his term as President Harrison
unexpectedly died he was the
00:50:13
1st Us president to die
in office today Americans
00:50:20
except that when that happens the vice
president becomes the president but in
00:50:27
1841 no one really knew what
to do so people turned to the
00:50:34
Constitution it's sad if the president
is removed from office or if he
00:50:40
dies resigns or is not able to
perform his duties his power and
00:50:47
responsibility is given to the vice
president but the meaning of those
00:50:54
words was unclear did the vice
president really become the president
00:51:01
or did the vice president just act like
the president of the Constitution may
00:51:08
not have been clear but John Tyler
was he claimed that after Harrison's
00:51:14
death he really was the President
Tyler made sure he was quickly
00:51:21
sworn in he answered only to the title
president he even refused to open
00:51:28
letters that were sent to acting
President Tyler. Eventually Americans
00:51:35
accepted John Tyler was the
nation's 10th president but some
00:51:42
Americans were not happy about that
fact during his presidency all but
00:51:49
one of Tyler's cabinet advisors
resigned and members of his own party
00:51:55
tried to impeach him RINGBACK.
00:52:07
Tyler was from the southern state of
Virginia home to 5 earlier us presidents
00:52:14
like many of the leaders before him he was
00:52:17
a lawyer from an upper class family who
owned slaves he strongly supported the
00:52:24
power of the states against the federal
government expansion of slavery and
00:52:31
rule by
00:52:32
a small elite group but the
United States was starting to
00:52:39
change for example President
John Quincy Adams had proposed
00:52:45
creating
00:52:46
a national system of roads the
Missouri Compromise of 820 limited
00:52:53
slavery in new states in the
northwest and in the 830 s.
00:52:59
Many white men who did not own
property earned the right to vote in
00:53:06
other words the u.s.
00:53:09
Was becoming more national
abolitionist and equal Tyler
00:53:15
resisted these changes he fought
against them as a member of the u.s.
00:53:21
House of Representatives a governor of
Virginia and a senator his fight reached
00:53:27
a crisis during the presidency of
00:53:30
a 100 Jackson. The 2 men belong to
the same party the Democratic Party
00:53:37
however Tyler hated Jackson's populist
policies and use of presidential
00:53:43
powers against the states
in the middle of the 830 s.
00:53:49
Tyler joined with several other
political leaders to create
00:53:53
a new anti Jackson party
they were called the weeks.
00:54:20
The new Whig party badly wanted to win
the 1840 presidential election against
00:54:26
Jackson's right hand man Martin Van Buren
they proposed John Tyler as the party's
00:54:33
vice presidential candidate because they
hoped he would appeal to Southern voters
00:54:40
the Whigs succeeded Tyler and Harrison won
the election the new party expected that
00:54:47
they would be able to achieve many of their
policy goals but then Harrison died and
00:54:54
Tyler unexpectedly became President
Tyler kept Harrison's cabinet of top
00:55:00
advisors but he did not accept
their advice Whig lawmakers
00:55:07
presented bill after bill to Tyler but
he failed to support the measures he
00:55:14
believed they gave too much power to the
federal government over the states in
00:55:20
anger all but one of Tyler's cabinet
members resigned then Whig leaders
00:55:26
officially declared that Tyler was no
longer part of their group. The following
00:55:32
here they even move to impeach him he
became known as a president without
00:55:39
a party Tyler was able to achieve
one major political act however
00:55:46
3 days before he left office he
signed the law that made Texas
00:55:51
a state perhaps wisely Tyler withdrew
from the next presidential election
00:55:59
he eventually withdrew even his support
for the federal government he became
00:56:04
a leader in the movement for Southern
succession in other words he believed the
00:56:11
Southern states had the right to separate
from the north and leave the union in
00:56:17
time the separation between the South
and North would lead to the Civil War.
00:56:41
Tyler was an unusual president he
took office in an unusual way and
00:56:48
he took the unusual step of vetoing
legislative action proposed by his own party
00:56:56
his family life has other unusual details
Tyler was the 1st president to get
00:57:02
married while in office he was the president
with the most children and 2 of his
00:57:09
grandchildren remained alive until
well into the 21st century in
00:57:15
844 Tyler married Julie
00:57:18
a gardener she was his 2nd wife his
1st wife Leticia had died 2 years
00:57:26
earlier. John and Leticia Tyler had
8 children together since Julie
00:57:32
a gardener Tyler was 24 years old 30
years younger than her new husband the 2
00:57:39
had plenty of time to have another 7
children and because one of their
00:57:46
sons had children in the 1920 s.
00:57:49
2 of Tyler's grandchildren are
still alive as of early 2017.
00:58:04
Tyler is not remembered as a good president
but he is remembered for establishing
00:58:11
a precedent
00:58:12
a way of doing something that other
people have followed the tiler president
00:58:18
permitted the peaceful transfer of power
from president to vice president in
00:58:24
1841 and it eased the transition after
other presidents have died since
00:58:31
then. In 1967 the
Constitution was even changed
00:58:38
to clarify what Tyler had claimed all
along when the president dies the vice
00:58:45
president becomes the new chief executive.
00:58:54
I'm Kelly Gene Kelly.
00:59:11
And that's our program for today listen
again tomorrow to learn English 3 stories
00:59:18
from around the world Jonathan
Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson.
00:59:48
This is how we this is the way you speak
if I'm a recent melt and the top u.s.
00:59:53
Infectious disease expert Anthony Felty
told lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday that
00:59:58
the 40000 new cases of Corona virus the
United States is experiencing daily could
01:00:04
turn into $100000.00
01:00:06
a day if nothing changes but he also said
he is cautiously optimistic that some
01:00:10
useful vaccine could be available in the
perceivable future he said and vaccine
01:00:16
probably won't be available by the time
students are due to start school again
01:00:20
later this year. The European Union
said Tuesday visitors from 14
01:00:27
countries may now this is the e.u.
01:00:29
But not people from the United States
that's because some of the u.s.
01:00:33
States that pushed the hardest and earliest
to reopen their economies are now in
01:00:38
retreat due to an alarming surgeon
confirmed corona virus infections the e.u.
01:00:44
Extended its ban on travelers not just
from the United States but also from other
01:00:49
big countries such as Russia Brazil and
India all of which are seeing rapidly
01:00:55
rising k. .
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